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Panic - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Panic : (noun)
1: an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety [syn: terror]
2: sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic
in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led
them to evacuate the building" [syn: scare]
(verb)
1: be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when
told that final exams were less than a week away"
2: cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere
thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Panic : \Pan"ic\, n. [Gr. ? (with or without ? fear): cf. F.
panigue. See Panic, a.]
1. A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and
groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or
a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized
with a panic; they fled in a panic.
2. By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension
concerning financial affairs.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Panic : \Pan"ic\, n. [L. panicum.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible
grain of some species of panic grass.
Panic grass (Bot.), any grass of the genus Panicum.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Panic : \Pan"ic\, a. [Gr. ? of or pertaining to ? Pan, to whom the
causing of sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F. panique.]
Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of
fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. ``A panic
fright.'' --Dryden.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Panic :
1. What Unix does when a critical
internal consistency checks fails in such a way that Unix
cannot continue. The kernel attempts to print a short
message on the console and write an image of memory into the
swap area on disk. This can be analysed later using adb.
The kernel will then either wait in a tight loop until the
machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic reboot.
Unix manual page: panic(8).
2. Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem
which prevents it from continuing to run.
(1995-03-01)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Panic : Panic: A sudden strong feeling of fear that prevents reasonable thought or action.
Based on the Greek woodland god Pan who was a frightening figure, part human, part goat, and whose pet caprice was to terrify people who ventured into rural areas, particularly at night.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Panic |
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